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A witness told an Amarillo police investigator that Stanley Marsh 3 paid him $20,000 for sex acts when he was a minor, helped him buy two BMW luxury cars and offered him $500 to sign a confidentiality agreement, court documents show.

A Lubbock special prosecutor charged Marsh 3, 74, with six counts of child sexual assault and five counts of sexual performance by a child last week. Marsh 3 remains free on a $300,000 bond.

Police seized dozens of items when they searched Marsh 3’s Chase Tower office on Nov. 7, including 70 envelopes of blue pills, signed confidentiality agreements, two Apple computers, couch cushion covers and a photo of a nude male, a search warrant inventory shows. Investigators also found 11 copies of blank or unsigned “release and waiver” documents in a drawer in Marsh 3’s private office, according to the police investigation inventory.

A sex crimes detective said in a Nov. 6 search warrant affidavit that investigators wanted to search the office for possible DNA evidence of sex crimes, computer files and Viagra pills the teen said Marsh 3 gave him to bolster sexual performance.

The witness told the investigator he first met Marsh 3 when he was 15 through other friends who worked for the Amarillo millionaire.

Marsh 3, according to the teen’s statement to police, once paid the boy and a friend $500 each for sex acts, the document said.

Marsh 3, the statement said, performed oral sex on the teen after his friend left the Amarillo millionaire’s private 12th floor office suite.

The witness “stated he was paid $2,500 for the sexual acts he performed with Marsh that day,” according to the statement. The witness also told the investigator “he was positive this was during the summer of 2010 (before he turned 17) and that Marsh knew how old he was because he showed Marsh his Texas driver’s license.”

The witness told authorities Marsh 3 showed him pornography on his office computer before each sex sessions.

“He stated before they had any type of sexual contact, Marsh would show him pornography to get him aroused,” the statement said. “He said Marsh used the computer in his office for this purpose. He also stated Marsh would give him pills he knew as Viagra to enhance his arousal.”

Marsh 3’s office, the witness told police, had an area with a bed with a large bottle of Viagra pills nearby.

The room also had a set of drawers that contained Kool cigarettes and sexual devices, the witness said in his statement to a sex crimes investigator.

The witness told police Marsh 3 helped him buy a black 2006 BMW 525i when he was 15 and that Marsh 3 had the title placed in the teen’s name. Marsh 3’s secretary, he told police, went with the teen to an Amarillo car dealership a few weeks later to buy a red 2006 BMW 525i after the boy wrecked the first BMW.

The secretary, according to the teen’s interview with police, then told the teen he was not allowed to see or talk to Marsh 3 any further.

Amarillo police said they launched the investigation on July 16 after receiving reports of “possible sexual exploitation” that occurred in Marsh 3’s office suite. The abuse, police said, occurred between 2010 and 2011.

Marsh 3 has hired a Houston defense team that has vowed to fight the charges and has questioned allegations in six civil lawsuits that claim Marsh 3 also paid several other teens for sex.

“Stanley Marsh 3 is not guilty of the group’s allegations and will fight as vigorously as his declining health permits,” Houston attorneys Paul Nugent and Heather Peterson said in a statement issued Wednesday.

The case is expected to go to a grand jury in the next few weeks or early next year, authorities said.

Marsh 3 remains free on bond, but a judge has ordered that he wear a GPS monitor, observe a curfew and not have contact with anyone under 17, according to the judge’s order.

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I'm concerned with the breach in all these confidentiality agreements. SM3 should be suing these minors for breaking contract. Is that not what he expected them to be afraid of? His plan seemed so air tight.

So the evidence taken from the office appears to match up with the details that were realesed well before the search warrent was issued. Not quite understanding why with all the time and details of these alligations already released why would he not of done a sweep of the office and remove items that coincide with the alligations.

Thats easy CKN. Hes Stanley Marsh. he can do whatever and get away with it like he has for years. I doubt he seriously thought the DA or APD would ever serve a search warrant on him. Now the evidence is matching up to what was said by the victims. Why would you need a bed and Viagra in your offfice? Why would you buy a 15yr old a BMW let alone 2? Think not only should his wife be charged with being an accomplice but also the secretary. She obviously knew something wasnt right. I mean anybody with a lick of sense would be able to figure this out. Teenage boys in your office for hours. A bed, Viagra, and cars and cash being handed out left and right..

It sounds like to me the kids parents need to be locked up as well for child abuse, for allowing this kind of acts to go on. I know if my child came home in a BMW and a few weeks later in a different one after being in a car wreck I would sure be questioning where they came from. It sounds like to me these kids also got a lot of money. Sounds like these parents need to get more involved in there kids lifes if they didn't know what was going on.

I graduated high school 28 years ago and there was talk about his activities even then. It was always under the guise of helping their art but everyone knew what was going on. He was never known to help any young female "artist"

I think the parents are guilty also.. My child can't even wear a sweat shirt home that we didn't buy I ask who's it is and where it come from and you gotta take it back. So why didn't mom or dad ask about these cars and money and games and etc?
Mom and Dad enjoyed the benefits and they stopped now we want sue for more money.
Don't misunderstand me I do not believe what he did was right but they have alot of others to be charged also...Secretary, wife, his kids everyone who helped out and the parents too.

I feel sorry for these kids leaving with this the rest of their lifes.

That secretary, Virginia, is a monster all on her own. I hope they serve a search warrant at her home, they'll find things, I'm sure, that she's hiding for Stanley. Including drugs. She's a psychopath and I'm sure buying bmw's for kids to appease their shame is the least of what she's done.